Imaginative Prayer

Imaginative Prayer

In our Women in God’s Spirit Group we have been exploring Imaginative Prayer. Imaginative Prayer is a prayer technique in which we open up a piece of scripture, read it through a couple of times, and then imagine yourself “in the scene.”

Right now, let us travel back in time to the time of Christ. Let us read and reflect upon Matthew 26:14-27:66 the Gospel Reading for Palm Sunday. Let us travel with Jesus during His final days. Read over the scripture, or a part of it, and imagine yourself as one of His disciples, or perhaps just a simple bystander… what are you seeing in the scene? Are you feeling sadness because you know what will soon happen to our Lord? Or do you feel triumphant because soon death shall be no more? Take yourself deep into your imagination. Smell the smells, touch the trees, talk with Jesus. Let us take time to be with Jesus this week in the Garden of Gethsemane. Let us tell Jesus He is not alone in His vigil and let us walk with Him on the journey to the cross. And then… let us remember… that Jesus travels with us as we each carry our own crosses. Have a Blessed Holy Week, Holly Clark